The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-09-08
GOSSIP FROM GREENSBORO.
A Breezy and Interesting Batch of Ne,
From the s-City of Flowers"

| A Breezy and Interesting Batch of New.
From the '-City of Flowers"
| Special Correspondence Of The Sentinel.
GREENSBORO, N. C., Sept l 1Ss7.-I
there is any gratitude in the heart of the
average Guilford County citizen, he should
show it when next called upon by the an
nual Thanksgiving proclamation. The
farmer has not whereof to complain. The
| generous fruits and life sustaining cereals
are here in u profusion probably such a.
was never seen by "the oldest inhabitant -
The last hard weather was supposed to have
killed much of the wheat and indeed it did
but a propitions spring brought forth a
heavy yield. Later the corn growers inter-
terest, stimulated by opportune showers all
through the summer, has developed to a
degree that is a surprise to even the least
hopeful.
Corn is everywhere. On high lands or
low, the possibilities of the country have
| been demonstrated. 1t is the poor man
year-this is. The blessed peach only
among the fruits, has been conspicuous by
its absence and has indeed lett IAN aching
dyspeptics stomach but in The nurserman's
excheqner, and the huckstans little leather
wallet.
If after the twenty years Of drought which
has SO forcibly reminded the thoughtful
man OF the curse that afflicted the earth in
the long ago, we should now have a change
of program, and realize twenty gears, in
stead of ''seven years" of plenty (of CORN,
there would be no need for the Guilford
county farmers to SO freely patronize Gin
cinnati pork packing houses.
But whatever deficiency may be noticed
or felt in fell or garden products. the water
melon has SO far filled place, the verv ideal
of the festive darkey and the voracious small
boy. 1t was little late in putting in an
appearance, as compared with the Georgia
article; but it is here all the same and
seems likely to stay for some time. The
has not shaken the confidence of the melon
vender in the capacity of the Greensboro
stomach, as demonstrated by the presence
OF fifteen or twenty wagons our streets
last Saturday. "loaded down to the gunnals"
with the "nigger's pet agony"
Judge Shepherd is administering the law
for US. Court convened last Monday, 29th
August. There has been some interesting
litigation. The Hairston-Blackburn negro
murder ease took prominence. Last spring
Allan Hairston, who keeps a small store in
Warnersvilte, a negro surburb, shot and
Ill la Ill.
drayman -ostensibly for the demand of 25
cents for hauling done by the deceased.
The killing has, by all parties, been look
ed upon as a case of murder in the first de-
gree. The slayer was promptly jailed He
has been in danger of lynching by his own
race. And even now, since his trial and
sentence there is much dissatisfaction felt
by both races. at the manner in which the
case was disposed of. After the evidence
was all in, the States council said that they
could not conseientiously ask for verdict
of murder on the Evidence The defense was
willing TO accept at man-slaughter; SO the
case was not given to a jury, but was thus
compromised by the lawyers. Some ele-
ments of evidence not introduced into the
trial have fixed convection in the public
mind that it was a clear case of murder.
which probably would be correct adjudi-
cation of the case, but lawyers have way of
dealing with such questions all their own
way.
The outcome has again shaken public
confidence in the integrity of the courts
and thus unwillingly they have furnished
another incentive to aggrieved men to take
the administration of law into their own
hands. Can any one wonder at the APP
plication of lynch law, when professional
thinkers are allowed Ia defeat the ends of JUS
tice?
DIR. Edward Lindsay one of the leading
druggists of the city died on Saturday morn
ing after a brief illness of three or four DAYS.
He was native of this place, being one of
six sons of J. Harper Lindsay, of honored
memory. He practiced medicine for
number Of years and had retired from prac
tice and had entered the drug business with
a son of Judge Schenck. He was about
thirty eight years old and leaves wife and
three children. L.WA.